Turmen officials scheduled to visit Kabul to discuss TAPI project

Turkmen officials are due to travel to Kabul this week to discuss the development of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, Reuters reported.

The pipeline, which would carry 33bn m3/year of gas from Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh field to southeast Asia, was first discussed in the 1990s.

But the project has struggled to secure financing, in part because of security concerns over the section of the pipeline that would run through Afghanistan.

However, the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) rulers have expressed its support for TAPI.